MEMBERS' OUTING 2024
This year's outing is to Batsford Arboretum, Moreton-in-Marsh GL56 9AT (www.batsarb.co.uk) on Wednesday 26th June.
The 56 acre arboretum was originally home to the Mitford family and offers a wonderful variety of landscape as well as a café and garden centre.
MEMBERS' WORKSHOP 2024
This year's workshop is a Life Drawing workshop (with a female model) on Sunday 6th October run by Charlotte Houlihan (www.charlottehoulihan.com). The workshop runs from 10.30 - 3.30 and will be held at the Northcourt Centre, Abingdon OX14 1NS.
The workshop is for members only and the fee is £20. Members wishing to attend need to email Caroline Ritson in order to book a place.
MATERIAL SUPPLIES
Art supply shops providing a 10% discount to Abingdon Artists on presentation of an Abingdon Artists' Membership card:
Lewis Baker, 5-7 Bridge St, Abingdon OX14 3HN
Broad Canvas, 20 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3AS (In person orders only)
(Membership cards are available from the Membership Secretary Andrea Whitehouse)
TUESDAY PAINTING GROUP
A regular drop-in painting group is held in term time on most Tuesdays of the year (except August)) from 2.00pm – 4.00 pm, in Christchurch Hall, Northcourt Road, Abingdon OX14 1PL. Claire Cross gives advice and support which members have found invaluable. Tea and coffee is provided. Informal tuition is usually available. If you have any queries then please contact Abingdon Artists at info@abingdonartists.org.uk
You can bring your own project to work on and can draw or paint anything you like.
It costs £2 per afternoon, to cover the hire of the hall, payable in cash on the day you attend. You will be very welcome.
You need to bring all your own materials - and an easel if you prefer that to the tables provided.
The group has grown in popularity and around 20 people attend on a regular basis. It is a very sociable way to paint with other artists, and it is much enjoyed by those who do attend. Do come!
QUICK ON THE DRAW (QOD).
Quick on the Draw (QOD), organised by Diana Matthews, is a weekly sketching group. We meet on Friday mornings at 10, until about 12, at a pre-determined venue in the town. Sometimes we have a plan, at other times we decide when we meet where we will go. After sketching we head for coffee and a chance to share our morning's work and to chat about art. If you have not tried working 'en plein air' this is an opportunity to give it a go in relaxed and supportive company, all the while exploring the architectural and other delights of the town.
Alongside this there is weekly Virtual QOD when members who are not always able to get out can share their work by email. This started during the first lockdown in March 2020 and was good to keep us connected and committed to some regular sketching when we were all confined to base.
Abingdon Artists Members who are interested in joining the group please contact Diana Matthews for information.
(The image shows the QODers at work near Abingdon County Hall)
SELECTED SHORT COURSES AND CLASSES
The Oxfordshire Chinese Brush Painting Group holds monthly meetings in Stanton Harcourt Village Hall. It also runs tutorial classes.
SELECTED LOCAL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS.
Modern Art Oxford From 16 March to 26 May MAO has an exhibition by Frieda Toranzo Jaeger: A future in the light of darkness, showing intricately embroidered multi-panel paintings remix iconography from western art history with indigenous techniques to subvert and challenge dominant power structures and historical narratives.
The Arts Society Abingdon Lectures take place at The Abbey Cinema, Abbey Close, Abingdon. OX14 3JD
The Ashmolean Museum from 23 March to 23 June the Ashmolean hosts the exhibition Bruegel to Rubens, showcasing over 100 exceptional Flemish drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Ashmolean Podcasts The Ashmolean has now launched a series of podcasts in which Oxford University academics from very different fields discuss objects from the Museum. In each episode of ‘Thinking with Things: The Oxford Collection Podcasts’ a prominent academic unpicks the story behind a single object from the collections that relates to their research.
EXHIBITIONS ON SCREEN
Look at Exhibitions on Screen for exhibitions in local cinemas.
URBAN SKETCHING
Are you interested in Urban Sketching and if so do you know that there is a group that meets fortnightly on a Wednesday at 11 0'clock for a couple of hours? Check them out on their Facebook Group - Urban Sketching Oxford if you would like to know more.
Please notify the group if you are coming. as they split into groups of six.